http://www.dwightbowen.com/2006/01/competing-january-2006/ Lean Manufacturing Consultant Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:51:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.dwightbowen.com/2006/01/competing-january-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Marty Pigg Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:36:43 +0000 http://www.dwightbowen.com/2006/01/15/competing-january-2006/#comment-4 I recently worked in an SemiConductor Environment that tried for 3 years to implement TPM to mirror Japan successes. From my experience... The culture change has to be at the managment level and thus will trickle down throughout any organization. In the 3 years I participated in the efforts, management could not get out of their own way. Actions speak louder than words and they treated TPM / Lean Initiatives as action items that get closed, rather than grasping the concepts and letting the change begin with them. Managers that are trying to drive lean initiative need to be consistent in their directives and the way they judge success. I recently worked in an SemiConductor Environment that tried for 3 years to implement TPM to mirror Japan successes. From my experience… The culture change has to be at the managment level and thus will trickle down throughout any organization. In the 3 years I participated in the efforts, management could not get out of their own way. Actions speak louder than words and they treated TPM / Lean Initiatives as action items that get closed, rather than grasping the concepts and letting the change begin with them. Managers that are trying to drive lean initiative need to be consistent in their directives and the way they judge success.

]]> http://www.dwightbowen.com/2006/01/competing-january-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Tony Byrne Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:31:06 +0000 http://www.dwightbowen.com/2006/01/15/competing-january-2006/#comment-3 Good information, we are currently having issues with keeping up with current demand (good problem to have) at which time we fall back to old habits. In addition we have had an influx of new staff (they are use to not be allowed to "think") that probably are not being shown "toast kaizen" in their orientation. Good information, we are currently having issues with keeping up with current demand (good problem to have) at which time we fall back to old habits. In addition we have had an influx of new staff (they are use to not be allowed to “think”) that probably are not being shown “toast kaizen” in their orientation.

]]> http://www.dwightbowen.com/2006/01/competing-january-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Larry Barber Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:33:15 +0000 http://www.dwightbowen.com/2006/01/15/competing-january-2006/#comment-2 Good job larry. Maybe you could talk about twin companies and what separates them. Good job larry. Maybe you could talk about twin companies and what separates them.

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